Influenzaviruses affect all of the world's population, posing a threat to at-risk populations such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, as well as those with underlying respiratory ailments. Vaccination is an effective ...

Vibrio cholerae has caused seven global pandemics to date. The ongoing pandemic, caused by Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 El Tor, has been the most extensive in geographical spread and duration. It began in 1961 in Indonesia ...

Properties of material under extreme conditions, whether high pressures, high temperatures or low temperatures, are rather interesting. Understanding the properties of any given material at such extreme conditions provides ...

The idea of developing a Bio-molecular mechanical device has attracted the attention of many research groups due to its promising Nano and Bio- technological applications such as flow-control valves, switches and bio-sensors. ...

Urinary Bladder and Colorectal cancers are considered among the most prevalent types of cancers worldwide and in Egypt in particular. LATS1 is a Tumor Suppressor Gene. The deficiency of lats in fruit flies leads to either ...

Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each ...

American University in Cairo. Center for Learning and Teaching(American University in Cairo, 2011-11-29)

The subject matter of our last issue, �The New Plagiarism�, generated a lot of feedback from faculty, and is obviously a high priority on many of our colleagues� minds. Following are excerpts from a memo circulated by Ms. ...

This thesis includes a variey of “literary map experiements” on a dataset of mappable, non-generic, places found in three early realist “Cairo novels” by Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo Modern (1945), Khan al-Khalili (1946) and Midaq ...

Mortgage finance is a very powerful financial tool that is considered an essential driver in the economies of almost all countries. Its importance is derived from the fact that it affects one of the basic essential needs ...

The Egyptian housing sector suffers from a number of deficiencies. Among these is the lack of an efficient housing finance mechanism. The mortgage market, formally developed in 2001, is still at nascent stages and is unable ...

The subject of this thesis is the Burji Mamluk mosque of Qijmas al-Ishaqi built near the end of the fifteenth century during the reign of sultan Qaytbay. It was founded at a time when the city of Cairo had already become ...